Time exists in order that everything doesnโt happen all at onceโฆand space exists so that it doesnโt all happen to you.
Susan SontagUnfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
Susan SontagThat even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Susan SontagIn the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag